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Louisville- City Information
Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The city's estimated population as of 2009 was 721,594 with a population of 1,266,454 in the
Louisville metropolitan area. An important internal shipping port in the 19th century, Louisville is today most well known for the Kentucky Derby, the widely
watched first race of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. The settlement that became the city of Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark
and is named after King Louis XVI of France. Twelve of the 15 buildings in Kentucky over 300 feet (91 m) are located in downtown Louisville.
Louisville Economy
Louisville's early economy first developed through the shipping and cargo industries. Its strategic location at the Falls of the Ohio, as well as its unique
position in the central United States (within one day's road travel to 60% of the cities in the continental U.S.) make it an ideal location for the transfer of
cargo along its route to other destinations. Recently, Louisville has emerged as a major center for the health care and medical sciences industries.
Louisville has been central to advancements in heart and hand surgery as well as cancer treatment. Some of the earliest artificial heart transplants were
conducted in Louisville. Louisville's thriving downtown medical research campus includes a new $88 million rehabilitation center, and a health sciences
research and commercialization park that, in partnership with the University of Louisville, has lured nearly 70 top scientists and researchers. Louisville is
also home to Humana, one of the nation's largest health insurance companies. Louisville is home to several major corporations and organizations: Brown Forman
Corporation (Fortune 1000) Hillerich & Bradsby (manufacturer of Louisville Slugger baseball bats), Hilliard Lyons (investment firm), Humana (Fortune 100),
Kindred Healthcare Incorporated (Fortune 500), Norton Healthcare, Papa John's Pizza, PharMerica (Fortune 1000), Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Republic Bank &
Trust Company, SHPS (healthcare and human resources services company), Stock Yards Bank & Trust, Texas Roadhouse, Thorntons Inc., Yum! Brands (owners of KFC,
Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell which were formerly Tricon Global Restaurants (a spin-off of PepsiCo) as well as Long John Silver's and A & W Restaurants which were
formerly Yorkshire Global Restaurants) (Fortune 500), ZirMed (health care technology company). Louisville for a long time was also home to Brown & Williamson,
the third largest company in the tobacco industry before merging with R. J. Reynolds in 2004 to form the Reynolds American Company. Brown & Williamson, one of
the subjects of the tobacco industry scandals of the 1990s, was the focus of The Insider, a 1999 film shot around the Louisville area. Also located in
Louisville are two major Ford plants, and a major General Electric appliance factory. Additionally, one third of all of the bourbon whiskey comes from
Louisville. The Brown Forman Corporation is one of the major makers of bourbon, which is headquartered in Louisville. Other major distilleries of bourbon can
be found both in the city of Louisville, and in neighboring cities in Kentucky. Louisville also prides itself in its large assortment of small, independent
businesses and restaurants, some of which have become known for their ingenuity and creativity. In 1926 the Brown Hotel became the home of the Hot Brown
"sandwich". A few blocks away, the Seelbach Hotel, which F. Scott Fitzgerald references in The Great Gatsby, is also famous for a secret back room where Al
Capone would regularly meet with associates during the Prohibition era. The drink the Old Fashioned was invented in Louisville's Pendennis Club. Several major
motion pictures have also been filmed in or near Louisville, including Goldfinger, Stripes, The Insider, Lawn Dogs, Elizabethtown and Secretariat.
Louisville Neighborhoods
Like all American cities, Louisville has a variety of unique neighborhoods that give the city its character. Neighborhoods in Louisville where you can find
your perfect apartment or house for rent include, Algonquin, Auburndale, Audubon, Avondale-Melbourne Heights, Bashford Manor, Beechmont, Belknap, Belmar, Bon
Air, Bonnycastle, Bradley, Brownsboro Zorn, Butchertown, California, Camp Taylor, Cherokee Gardens, Cherokee Seneca, Cherokee Triangle, Chickasaw, Clifton,
Clifton Heights, Cloverleaf, Crescent Hill, Deer Park, Douglass Loop, Downtown, Edgewood, Gardiner Lane, Germantown, Hallmark, Hawthorne, Hayfield Dundee,
Hazelwood, Highlands, Hikes Point, Irish Hill, Iroquois, Iroquois Park, Jacobs, Kenwood Hill, Klondike, Limerick, Merriwether, Old Louisville, Original
Highlands, Paristown Pointe, Park DuValle, Park Hill, Parkland, Phoenix Hill, Poplar Level, Portland, Rockcreek Lexington Road, Russell, Saint Joseph,
Schnitzelburg, Shawnee, Shelby Park, Smoketown, South Louisville, Southland Park, Southside, Taylor Berry, Tyler Park, Wilder ParkWyandotte (also called
Oakdale), Buechel, Fairdale, Fern Creek, Highview, Newburg, Okolona, Pleasure Ridge Park, Saint Dennis, Valley Station, Ashville (Glenmary), Avoca, Beckley
(Lake Forest), Beechland Beach, Berrytown, Bethany, Clark Station, Eastwood, English Station, Fairmount, Fisherville, Freys Hill (Springhurst), Goose Creek,
Greenwood (Riverportt), Griffytown, Harrods Creek, Hopewell, Hunters Trace, Johnsontown, Juniper Beach, Knopp (Knopp-Melton), Kosmosdale, Lake Dreamland, Lake
Louisville, Lakeland, Long Run, Longview, Meadowlawn, Medora, O'Bannon, Orell, Parkwood, Petersburg, Plainview, Prairie Village, Riverside Gardens, Routt,
Rubbertown, Seatonville, Smyrna, South Park, Springdale, Sylvania, Thixton, Transylvania Beach, Tucker Station, Valley Downs, Valley Gardens, Valley Village,
Waverly Hills, Whitner, Worthington, Anchorage, Audubon Park, Bancroft, Barbourmeade, Beechwood Village, Bellemeade, Bellewood, Blue Ridge Manor, Briarwood,
Broad Fields, Broeck Pointe, Brownsboro Farm, Brownsboro Village, Cambridge, Cherrywood Village, Coldstream, Creekside, Crossgate, Douglass Hills, Druid Hills,
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Louisville Culture and Living
Poised on the banks of the Ohio River, Louisville blends small-town charm with urban sophistication. The city's claim to fame is the Kentucky Derby. The
race at Churchill Downs has been a national event for more than 120 years. Many of us first learned of the city from a baseball bat. Today, the rebuilt
Louisville Slugger Factory is another major draw. The city itself has been revitalized with a bustling riverfront district that features the inviting
Riverfront Plaza. Tourists may take scenic river cruises aboard The Belle or The Star. Louisville is also blessed with a dynamic arts scene, featuring the
Kentucky Center for the Arts, as well as several fine museums and annual festivals. For dining, the city offers about 2,500 restaurants, highlighted by the
festive "Restaurant Row" on the Bardstown Road corridor. Louisville is home to a number of annual cultural events. Perhaps most well-known is the Kentucky
Derby, held annually during the first Saturday of May. The Derby is preceded by a two-week long Kentucky Derby Festival, which starts with the annual Thunder
Over Louisville, the largest annual fireworks display in the nation. The Kentucky Derby Festival also features notable events such as the Pegasus Parade, The
Great Steamboat Race, Great Balloon Race, a marathon, and about seventy events in total. Esquire magazine has called the Kentucky Derby "the biggest party in
the south."Usually beginning in late February or early March is the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, an internationally
acclaimed new-play festival that lasts approximately six weeks. On Memorial Day weekend, Louisville hosts the largest annual Beatles Festival in the world,
Abbey Road on the River. The festival lasts five days and is located on the Belvedere in downtown Louisville. The summer season in Louisville also features a
series of cultural events such as the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival (commonly called Shakespeare in the Park), held in July of every year and features free
Shakespeare plays in Central Park in Old Louisville. June sees the relatively new addition of Louisville Pride festivities, including an annually growing and
media-covered gay-pride parade through the streets of downtown Louisville and picnic at the Belvedere. The Kentucky State Fair is held every August at the
Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville as well, featuring an array of culture from all areas of Kentucky. In places, the African American community
celebrates Juneteenth commemorating June 19, 1865, when slaves in the western territories learned of their freedom. Since 2007, Louisville has been host to
the annual Ironman Louisville triathlon in August, one of only eight Ironman events in North America. In 2009, 2352 participants finished the course.[68]
The annual Bluegrass Balloon Festival. In September is the Bluegrass Balloon Festival, the fifth largest hot air balloon festival in the nation. The festival
features early morning balloon races, as well as balloon glows in the evening. In September, in nearby Bardstown, is the annual Kentucky Bourbon Festival,
which features some of the finest bourbon in the world. The suburb of Jeffersontown is also the home of the annual Gaslight Festival, a series of events spread
over a week. Attendance is approximately 200,000 for the week. The month of October features the St. James Court Art Show in Old Louisville. Thousands of
artists gather on the streets and in the courtyard to exhibit and sell their wares, and the event is attended by many art collectors and enthusiasts. The show
is the second most-attended event next to the Derby. Also in October is the World's Largest Halloween Party at the Louisville Zoo.
College sports are very popular in the Louisville area, especially college basketball. The Louisville Cardinals rank first nationally in percent to capacity
attendance annually, with Freedom Hall averaging better than 100 percent for 10 straight years. The Cardinals ranked 4th in actual attendance in 2007, although
they will likely pass Syracuse and North Carolina in attendance when the new 22,000 seat KFC Yum! Center is completed in 2010. The Cardinals also hold the Big
East conference women's basketball paid attendance record with nearly 17,000 attending the game against the Kentucky Wildcats in 2008. The Louisville market
has ranked first in ratings for the NCAA men's basketball tournament every year since 1999. The Kentucky Wildcats also play an annual game in Freedom Hall,
although attendance has declined steadily in recent years, with only 10,163 fans attending the 2008 game, only 54% of Freedom Hall's capacity.
Louisville Colleges and Universities
Louisville is home to several institutions of higher learning. There are five four-year universities, the University of Louisville, Bellarmine University,
Spalding University, Sullivan University, and Simmons College of Kentucky; a two-year community college, Jefferson Community and Technical College; and several
other business or technical schools such as Spencerian College, ITT Technical Institute, Strayer University and Louisville Technical Institute. Indiana
University Southeast is located across the Ohio River in New Albany, Indiana. The University of Louisville has notable achievements including the discovery of
the world's first cervical cancer vaccine, several hand transplants, and the world's first wireless artificial heart transplant. The school's Health Sciences
Center in Downtown Louisville is currently adding an expansive medical research market on the city's old Haymarket site, which is projected to add 10,000 high
paying jobs within 10 years. Two major graduate professional schools of religion are also located in Louisville. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,
with more than 2,000 students, is the flagship institution of the Southern Baptist Convention. It was founded in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1859 and moved
to Louisville in 1877, occupying its present campus on Lexington Road in 1926. Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, product of a 1901 merger of two
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You'd think if a developer shelled out to have Andy Serkis and John Rhys-Davies in their voice cast that they'd make use of the heavy-hitters in their trailer.
But nope. All you get is some guy saying the name of the game right at the end. I guess that's why they call it a "teaser" trailer.
Actually, I'm not as excited about the voices of Serkis and Rhys-Davies as I am about Lena Headey's addition to the cast. I hadn't heard of her 'til 300, but now that she's cast as Cersei Lannister in the upcoming pilot of HBO's Song of Ice and Fire adaptation, I can't get enough of her. (Though I say she was wasted on Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles — wasted!)
Risen is out on PC October 2 and will hit the Xbox 360 sometime early next year.

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RIDGEWOOD, N.J. – A 10-year-old boy who had been named the town's honorary police chief was given a funeral with full police honors Tuesday, his flag-draped coffin arriving at church to the sound of bagpipes and leaving with a motorcycle escort.
"I lost a partner today," said Police Chief John Ward, fighting back tears as he emerged from the service.
Michael Feeney, who died last week, had been named honorary police chief for Ridgewood for 2013. He had struggled for four years with Ewing's sarcoma, a rare, aggressive and often fatal bone cancer that usually develops in children and young adults.
Officers from more than a dozen police agencies attended the funeral in their dress blue uniforms.
"Michael brought out the best in everybody," the chief said. "I can't believe the response from the departments. I've gotten calls from all over the country, apologizing for not being able to make it. I guess I want to thank the Feeney family for sharing Michael with us. He's touched everybody in this community."
The town 25 miles north of New York City had rallied around the boy, who was running for office at his school and was a huge New York Giants fan. He was to have lighted the town Christmas tree.
"He showed people what it is to care about something without any personal motivation for yourself. He showed courage; he wanted to make a difference," Ward said.
Ward said the department would name its youth academy the Chief Michael Feeney Junior Police Academy.
"I think we need to learn from young people like this," he said.


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Twenty years since Superunkown
This year, the band celebrates the 20th anniversary of this groundbreaking album with a special reissue in two deluxe versions outlined below and available on June 3, 2014 via A&M Records/UME. The Deluxe Edition is a 2-CD package featuring the remastered album along with disc two consisting of demos, rehearsals, B-sides and more. The Super Deluxe Edition is a 5-CD package featuring the remastered album, additional demos, rehearsals and B-sides and the fifth disc is the album mixed in Blu-ray ™ Audio 5.1 Surround Sound. The Super Deluxe Edition is incredibly packaged in a hardbound book with a lenticular cover, liner notes by David Fricke and newly reimagined album artwork designed by Josh Graham. It also features never before seen band photography by Kevin Westerberg. A 2-LP gatefold of the original 16 vinyl tracks remastered on 200-gram vinyl in a gatefold jacket will also be made available. In addition, the Superunknown singles and associated b-sides with newly interpreted artwork sleeves by Josh Graham will be reissued on Record Store Day, April 19th, as a set of five limited edition 10″ vinyl records.
The Day I Tried To Live (Rehearsal)
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To the future scientists, engineers, code breakers and cyber Soldiers out there, start on a strong path to leadership and experience technology and training that isn't possible in a classroom. The National Guard STEM program is currently looking for the next great pioneer.
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Bachelor of Arts (Single Honours)
Business Studies
Business Studies (IOM)
University of Chester
University College Isle of Man
Undergraduate Modular Programme
Full-time and Part-time
Classroom / Laboratory,
3 Years
7 Years
Annual - September
17a. Faculty
17b. Department
Business and Management
University of Chester
Business, Strategy & Entrepreneurship
Tuesday 1st September 2015
To provide a broad, analytical and integrated study of business and management that enables students to develop an understanding of contemporary business theory and practice across a range of sectors and organisational contexts. In particular, the programme aims are to:
Level 4Students will address the following business concepts, enabling them to establish a solid foundation upon which further study opportunities can be enjoyed. In particular, they will focus upon: The various processes, procedures, competencies and practices associated with effective management. (BU4001, BU4002, BU4003, BU4004, TM4003,) The management and development of resources and operations. (BU4001, BU4002, BU4003, TM4003) The diverse nature, purpose and governance of organisations. (BU4001, BU4002, BU4003, BU4004,TM4003) Types of corporate behaviour and the internal and external factors that impact upon this behaviour. (BU4001, BU4004, TM4003) The development and operation of markets and the management of customer expectations. (BU4001, BU4003, BU4004, TM 4003) The sources, uses and management of finance. (BU4002) The development, management and exploitation of information systems and their use in effective decision making. ( BU4001, BU4002, BU4004, TM4001, TM4003) The use of relevant information technologies and their applications to business and management. (BU4001, BU4002, BU4003, BU4004, TM4001, TM4003) The development of relevant, effective and appropriate management policies and strategies. (BU4001, BU4002, BU4003, BU4004, TM4001, TM4003) The contemporary challenges and issues that face managers in the modern business environment and the organisations in which they operate. (BU4001, BU4002, BU4003, BU4004, TM4001, TM4003) Level 5
At level 5, students will begin to explore strategic elements of managing business operations and, consequently, will:
Analyse organisational capabilities and assess the key individual, group and organisational influences on ethical decision making (BU5001, BU5003, BU5002, TM5001, TM50002). Demonstrate an understanding of the operational cycle in organisations within both manufacturing and service sectors.(BU5001, BU5002, BU5003, TM5003, WB5101) Analyse organisational capabilities and recognise the essential features required at each stage of designing, planning, implementation, monitoring and controlling operations.(BU5001, BU5002, BU5003, TM5001, WB5101) Reveal a command and relevant understanding of technical and creative skills for managers in communication; such as coaching, listening, negotiation, conflict, group dynamics, teamwork(BU5001, BU5002, BU5003, TM5003, WB5101) Recognise and critically discuss the concepts and principles of human resource management(BU5001, BU5003, BU5002, TM5002, WB5101) Analyse key management accounting themes, concepts and tools within an organisational context.(BU5001, BU5003, BU5004, WB5101) Apply appropriate analytical and decision making techniques to theoretical management accounting situations.(BU5001, BU5002,BU5004, WB5101) Analyse and evaluate the different and opposing views within the globalisation debate.(BU5001, BU5002, BU5003, TM5001) Examine the dynamics and effects of the internationalisation and integration of trade and markets and the continuing consequences for management action and reflection.(BU5001, BU5002, BU5003, BU5004, TM5001) Analyse the key drivers, opportunities and challenges of internationalisation for the direction and management of real businesses.(BU5001, BU5002, BU503, BU5004, TM5001, WB5101) Explore the role, value, participants, policy and provider perspectives involved in cultural factors (BU5002, BU5003, TM5002, WB5101) Synthesise contrasting theories of Direct marketing. (BU5002, TM5001, TM5002, TM5003,WB5101) Identify, apply and evaluate key tools available to the Direct Marketer(BU5002, TM5001, TM5002, TM5003, WB5101) Implement, evaluate and analyse relevant methods of digital and social media within a Direct Marketing for effective integration into organisations;(TM5001, BU5003, BU5302, TM5018) Analyse critically their development of work-specific and transferable skills and competencies and evaluate their work-based performance (WB5101, BU5001, BU5002, BU5003, BU5004, TM5001, TM5003) Level 6
Students will enhance their skill set sufficiently to enable them to critically assess and analyse business practices and theories. Students will be given the opportunity to:
Critically assess the various potential methodological and analytical approaches that could be employed in the design and structure of a chosen research project and appropriately articulate and justify the decisions made in this regard(BU6001, BU6004, BU6002, BU6017, BU6008,TM6004) Provide evidence of consequential reflection through reporting of relevant judgements that demonstrate an ability to articulate information, develop ideas and/or propose solutions through the application of autonomous learning.(BU6001, BU6002, BU6005, BU6006, BU6012, BU6017, TM6004) Implement, evaluate and critically appraise various strategic marketing management tools (BU6001, BU6002, BU6004, BU6006, BU6008, BU6017, TM6003, TM6004) Critically apply the concepts, paradigms and techniques of corporate strategy to an applied case and real industry and corporate scenario. (BU6001, BU6002,BU6006, BU6008, BU6017, TM6003, TM6004) Appraise and evaluate the role of strategy within organisations. (BU6001, BU6002, BU6006, BU6007, BU6008, BU6017, TM6003, TM6004) Formulate creative approaches to strategic problems. (BU6001, BU6002, BU6004,BU6006, BU6007, BU6008, BU6012, BU6017, TM6003, TM6004) Critically analyse and evaluate competitive advantage. (BU6001, BU6002, BU6004, BU6008, BU6012, BU6017, TM6003, TM6004) Assess, evaluate and synthesise the principal concepts in strategic financial management. (BU6002, BU6004, BU6006, BU6007, BU6012, BU6016, BU6017, TM6003) Prepare appropriate presentation of strategic financial arguments in a relevant context. (BU6002, BU6004, BU6006, BU6012, BU6016, BU6017, TM6003) Critically analyse and evaluate a range of leadership concepts, theories and models. (BU6001,BU6002, BU6004, BU6007, BU6008, BU6017) Critically analyse and evaluate a range of contemporary theories and models relating to managing change. (BU6001, BU6002, BU6004, BU6005, BU6008, BU6012, BU6016, BU6017, TM6003) Synthesise and evaluate the above concepts, theories and frameworks and evaluate how they can be best applied to leading and managing change effectively and responsibly. (BU6001, BU6002, BU6004, BU6005, BU6007, BU6008, BU6012, BU6016, BU6017, TM6003) Critique different strategic concepts, themes and frameworks associated with new business venture creation (BU6001, BU6002, BU6004, BU6005, BU6016, BU6017, TM6004)
Students undertaking this Programme will be able to demonstrate: Cognitive skills of critical thinking, analysis and synthesis. This includes the capability to identify assumptions, evaluate statements in terms of evidence, to detect false logic or reasoning, to identify implicit values, to define terms adequately and to generalise appropriately. (BU4001, BU4002, BU4003, BU5001, BU5002, WB5101, BU6001) Effective problem solving and decision making using appropriate quantitative and qualitative skills including identifying, formulating and solving business problems. (BU4001, BU4002, BU4003, TM4001,TM4002, BU5001, BU5002, BU5003,BU5004, TM5002, TM5003, WB5101, BU6001, BU6002, BU6005, BU6006, BU6007, BU6008, BU6012, BU6017, TM6003, TM6004) The ability to create, evaluate and assess a range of options together with the capacity to apply ideas and knowledge to a range of situations. (BU4001, BU4002, BU4003, BU4004, TM4001, TM4003, BU5001, BU5002, WB5101, BU6001, BU6002, BU6017, TM6003) Self reflection and criticality including self awareness, openness and sensitivity to diversity in terms of people, cultures, business and management issues. Also, the skills of learning to learn and developing a continuing appetite for learning; reflective, adaptive and collaborative learning. (BU4001, BU4003, TM4003, BU5002, BU5003, WB5101, TM5002, BU6001, BU6005, BU6017, BU6008, TM6003, TM6004)
Practical SkillsThe graduating student exiting with a Business Degree will be equipped to apply an extensive range of practical management skills to deal in a wide variety of contexts and across a broad range of sectors. In addition, graduates will be able to apply and utilise: Effective communication, oral and in writing, using a range of media which are widely used in business such as the preparation and presentation of business reports (BU4001, BU4002, BU4003, TM4001, TM4003, BU5001, BU5002, BU5003, BU5004, WB5101, BU6001, BU6002, BU6005, BU6006, BU6008, BU6012, TM6003, TM6004) Numeracy and quantitative skills including data analysis, interpretation and extrapolation. The use of models of business problems and phenomena (BU4001, BU4002, BU5001, BU5002, BU5003, BU5004, WB5101,TM5002, WB5101, BU6001, BU6006, BU6007, BU6012, BU6016, BU6017, TM6004) Effective use of communication and information technology for business applications (BU4001,BU4002, BU4003, BU4004, TM4001, TM4003, WB5101, BU5002, BU5003, BU5004, TM5001, TM5002, BU6001, BU6006, BU6007, BU6012, BU6016, BU6017, TM6003, TM6004) Effective self-management in terms of time, planning and behaviour, motivation, self-starting, individual initiative and enterprise (BU4001, BU4003, WB5101, BU5001, BU5002, BU6001,BU6017) Effective performance, within a team environment, including leadership, team building, influencing and project management skills (BU4001, TM4003, WB5101, BU5001, TM5001, BU6001, BU6002, BU6004, BU6008, BU6017) Interpersonal skills of effective listening, negotiating, persuasion and presentation (BU4001, BU4003, BU4004, TM4001, TM4002, BU5001, BU5002, WB5101, BU6001, BU6007, BU6008, BU6017, TM6003) The ability to conduct research into business and management issues, either individually or as part of a team for projects/dissertations/presentations. This requires familiarity with and an evaluative approach to a range of business data, sources of information and appropriate methodologies, and for such to inform the overall learning process (BU4001, BU4003, WB5101, BU5001, BU5002, BU5003, TM5003, BU6001, BU6012, BU6017)Key Skills Communication (BU4001, BU4003, BU4004, TM4001, TM4003, BU5001, BU5002, BU5003, TM5003, WB5101, BU6001, BU6016, BU6017) Application of Number (BU4002, BU5004, BU6001, BU6006) Information Literacy and Technology (BU4001, BU4004, BU5004, TM5003, WB5101, BU6001, BU6016, BU6017, TM6004) Improving own learning and performance (WB5101, BU6001) Working with others (BU4001,WB5101,BU5001, BU5003, BU6007, BU6008, BU6017) Problem solving (BU4002, BU4003, TM4003, BU5001, BU5002, BU5004, WB5101, BU6001, BU6002, BU6006, BU6012, BU6016 and BU6017)Transferable Professional SkillsCapabilities for analysis, evaluation, innovation, and reflection; self- awareness and openness to life-long learning opportunities. (BU4001, BU4002, BU4003, BU4004, TM4001, TM4003, WB5101, BU5001, BU5002, BU5003, BU5004, BU6001, BU6006, BU6007, BU6008, TM6004, BU6017)
Communication skills are embedded at every level with each module in the programme, specifically examining: Communication - verbal and written communication skills developed through a range of activities and assessment methods (eg presentations and written reports) (BU4001, BU4002, BU4003, BU4004, TM4003, BU5001, BU5002, BU5003, BU5004, WB5101, TM5002, BU6001, TM6004) Application of Number - research methods and finance (BU4002, BU5004, WB5101, BU6001, BU6006, BU6012, BU6016, BU6017) Information Literacy and Technology - use of information technology and an appreciation of its application in management and business. (BU4001, BU4002, BU4004, BU5001, BU5004, TM5003, WB5101, BU6001, BU6012, BU6016, BU6017, TM6004) Improving own learning and performance - lifelong learning skills and continuous personal and professional development. (BU4001, BU4004, BU5002, BU5003, TM5002, WB5101, BU6001, TM6003) Working with others - group work tasks and activities (BU4001, BU4003, BU4004, WB5101, BU5001, BU5002, BU5003, BU6008 and BU6017) Problem Solving - experience developed of solving problems and decision making in a variety of contexts (BU4001 BU4002, BU4003, BU4004, TM4003, BU5001, BU5002, BU5004, TM5002, WB5101, BU6001, BU6002, BU6006, BU6012, BU6016, BU6017)
The programme is designed to prepare participants to become competent and knowledgeable in a range of business disciplines and competences. It aims to provide students with the knowledge, skills and understanding to successfully embark upon a career in business and management. Its content and structure have been informed by the QAA's Benchmark Statement for General Business and Management. The subject curriculum of the programme is designed to cover and incorporate the following cognate areas: markets - the development and operation of markets for resources, goods and services ( Level 4 TM4001, BU4003: Level 5 TM5001 or TM5002 or TM5003) customers - customer expectations, service and orientation (TM4003) finance - the sources, uses and management of finance; the use of accounting and other information systems for managerial applications (BU4003, BU5004) people - the management and development of people within organisations (BU4001, BU5003) operations - the management of resources and operations (TM4003, BU5001, BU5002)· information systems - the development, management and exploitation of information systems and their impact upon organisations (BU4004, BU5001, BU6009) communication and information technology - the comprehension and use of relevant communication and information technologies for application in business and management (BU4004, WB5001) business policy and strategy - the development of appropriate policies and strategies within a changing environment, to meet stakeholder interests (BU4003, BU6002) pervasive issues - sustainability, globalisation, corporate social responsibility, diversity, business innovation, creativity, enterprise development, knowledge management and risk management. (BU5002)
Progressive extension, integration and reinforcement in these cognate areas is further available in level 6 options. Students study the core functional areas of finance, marketing and people management progressively from level 4 through level 5. At level 6, students have the opportunity to continue with broad-based business studies or to specialise in one or more of these functional disciplines. The study of the functional areas is supported by modules exploring the context and environment in which businesses operate. A major emphasis is placed in both teaching and assessment in embedding and analysing conceptual knowledge in the experience and understanding of real industries and organisations.At Level 4 students develop an understanding of the key concepts and business functions, that business professionals have to be aware of, in order to operate successfully in the modern business environment. In addition students begin to develop some of the skills necessary to be an effective student and manager.At Level 5, students expand their exploration of the relationship between functional areas and real industries and organisations. Students develop their appreciation of the contemporary context in which businesses operate. Key aspects of business behaviour and practice, such as how to manage people and how to make effective decisions, are developed in depth. Level 5 culminates in a period of experiential learning in which learners are provided with an opportunity to apply knowledge, skills and understanding within a real organisation. Students may undertake WB5007 International Exchange as a replacement year of level 5. The replacement International Exchange module (WB5007) provides an opportunity to replace their second year of study by studying at a different University in an overseas country. It is important that the content of the modules offered by the overseas University match those that would have been studied during the student's second year at the University of Chester.Level 6 of the programme enables students to develop an understanding of how well the internal resources and business functions of organisations are managed to interact with their external environment. At the same time, students are enabled to build on prior learning to specialise in aspects of business theory and management practice that are of particular interest to them. Specialisation is achieved by providing a range of option modules and the completion of an individual research project which focuses on an appropriate business-related issue.
NB. Pre-requisite to BU6002 is BU4003 or BU5002 or acceptable equivalent
Level4 : 120 CreditsLevel5 : 120 CreditsLevel6 : 120 CreditsTotal:360 Credits
This programme is available to anyone capable of reaching the required entry standards. The typical applicant will have a minimum of 260 UCAS points, of which 220 points must be obtained from GCE A2 Level or Vocational A Level (6 or 12 unit) awards, including a Grade C in one subject. The remaining points may be achieved from GCE A2/AS Level, Vocational A/AS Level awards, or from Level 3 certification. BTEC National Certificate/Diploma applicants will have a minimum of a Merit profile. Applicants will be expected to hold a GCSE Mathematics qualification at grade C or above. Irish and Scottish Highers: a minimum of BBCC 30 points for applicants studying on the International or European Baccalaureate. Applications will be considered on an individual basis.
QAA Subject Benchmarks Statements for General Business and Management
This subject benchmark statement is for general business and management honours degree programmes only. The purpose of general business and management programmes is threefold:
'Organisations' should be understood throughout this text to include a wide range of different types including, for example, public, private and not-for-profit, together with a comprehensive range of sizes and structures of organisations. Similarly, the term 'business' should be interpreted generically.
'Preparation for business' should be taken to mean the development of a range of specific business knowledge and skills, together with the improved self-awareness and personal development appropriate to graduate careers in business with the potential for management positions and to employability in general. This includes the encouragement of positive and critical attitudes towards change and enterprise, so as to reflect the dynamism and vibrancy of the business environment.
Not every student will engage subsequently in a business and management career, or will have entered directly from secondary education. Therefore, lifelong learning skills should be understood to include the development and enhancement of a range of general transferable intellectual and study skills, which, while being highly appropriate to a career in business and management, are not restricted to this.
While there is a clear expectation that all such general degree programmes should cover these three purposes, the actual balance will vary among individual higher education institutions and may also reflect the requirements for recognition by professional bodies. The particular balance being delivered should be explicable and demonstrable in terms of the specified learning outcomes of particular programmes.
Knowledge and understanding
There is an expectation that degree programmes covered by this subject benchmark statement should provide a broad, analytical and highly integrated study of business and management. Students should be able to demonstrate relevant knowledge and understanding of organisations, the external environment in which they operate and how they are managed. There is likely to be an emphasis upon understanding and responding to change and the consideration of the future of organisations and the external environment in which they operate. The interrelationships among and the interconnectedness between these areas are very important within the overall student learning experience, and should be demonstrated in the capabilities of successful students from all modes of delivery.
Organisations - this encompasses the internal aspects, functions and processes of organisations including their diverse nature, purposes, structures, governance, operations and management, together with the individual and corporate behaviours and cultures which exist within and between organisations and their influence upon the external environment.
External environment - this encompasses a wide range of factors, including economic, environmental, ethical, legal, political, sociological and technological, together with their effects at local, national and international levels upon the strategy, behaviour, management and sustainability of organisations.
Management - this encompasses the various processes, procedures and practices for effective management of organisations. It includes theories, models, frameworks, tasks and roles of management together with rational analysis and other processes of decision making within organisations and in relation to the external environment.Within the framework of these three main areas, it is expected that graduates will also be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding in the following areas:
Business and management degrees are strongly related to practice and therefore there should be a strong link between the development of skills and employability of graduates. Students should be able to demonstrate a range of cognitive and intellectual skills together with techniques specific to business and management. Students should also be able to demonstrate relevant personal and interpersonal skills. These include (not in any particular priority order):
It is recognised that all programmes covered by these standards need to address issues at the European and international business levels. Where specific emphasis is placed upon this, for example, in the title or in requiring study and or work abroad, then appropriate business and cultural understanding and, where appropriate, foreign language capability should be developed and demonstrated by graduates.
The methods of learning and teaching are geared to progression and integration through the levels of the programme. The individual module descriptors provide details of learning outcomes as well as methods of teaching and learning. The major forms of teaching methods will be lectures, seminars and workshops. Other methodologies will be employed as appropriate. These may include; field trips, visits, directed reading, interactive learning via the University computer network and the Isle of Man College of Further and Higher Education Network, case study analysis, individual research, group learning activities, reflective log/portfolio (e.g. utilising student progress files in relation to personal development planning) and presentations.
The Institution seeks to deliver varied, high-quality learning experiences, teaching and assessment in order to develop appropriate knowledge and understanding, and to enhance a variety of key/transferable skills. This is facilitated through the outcome-directed nature of learning, teaching and assessment, in a student-centred environment, which provides incremental opportunities for independent and autonomous learning.
The assessment strategy for this degree will serve two purposes:
Assessment will follow the University model of a 4,000 word equivalency per module. Each module will be summatively assessed by a minimum of two assessments, with formative assessment also employed throughout. Student assessment will employ rigorous, objective testing to ensure that learning outcomes are met.
Assessment tasks will grow in sophistication and complexity as a student progresses on the programme. For example:
However, it is expected that students will begin to use and develop critical skills from the beginning of the programme.
Students will be assessed in a number of ways, including essays, industry-related reports, presentations, debates, assessed seminars, reflective reports and examinations.
The Institution's assessment strategy has been created in accordance to the University's Teaching, Learning & Assessment strategy.
Students completing the BA Business Studies Single Honours programme should meet the QAA's Benchmark document's standards on knowledge and understanding, skills and the assessment strategies. The outcome of level three should be a graduate student who will be able to offer added value to the market place by meeting the expectations of employers via the application of acquired transferable, integrated skills, and the developed body of knowledge gained from the programme. In addition the graduate will have amassed valuable life skills such as self-awareness, creative problem solving, and autonomy, which could be applied in a wide variety of circumstances which they will face. They will have been instilled with a positive attitude towards reflection, self- awareness and will possess openness towards seeking out life-long learning opportunities, which may be translated into the pursuit of professional qualifications.
A typical business studies student will:
Consistent with the University's commitment to widen access and participation, the Institution has a flexible admissions policy, and encourages applications from mature students and from groups normally under-represented in higher education. The general policy is to look for a good level of literacy, together with proven interest and/or experience in an appropriate subject.
The Institution has considerable experience in successfully addressing the practical and learning needs of a wide range of students. This include mature students, those entering education with a non-standard academic background and those with a wide range of disabilities. Equality and diversity issues are embedded and addressed in all modules.
Students studying on the programme will benefit from the experience of staff within the department. For example, extensive experience in delivering management training for organisations and practising managers at undergraduate and postgraduate level will continues to inform the curriculum. The College has strong links with the Isle of Man Chamber of Commerce, and Junior Chamber of Commerce, together with local branches of professional bodies such as ACCA and ICAEW.
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Black Colette Juniper Pants
Added Nov 28, 2012
by Sew Hopeful
Sydney, Australia
My first pair of pants, also my first fly front and first slash pockets. Despite stressing out the whole way through sewing these, the pattern is good as I managed to produce a pair of wearable pants. More about the pattern, some more pics of inside/interior and how I ended up modifying the pockets on my blog. Also, black is very hard to photograph!!
Material Notes
Cotton sateen with a very slight stretch. Probably not the best choice for this pattern but ok.
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Nov 28, 2012, 11.35 PMby schnui
These pants look great and look like a good fit on you. I really like your idea of using the floral facings and pocket linings.
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Dec 3, 2012, 12.32 PMby Sew Hopeful
Thanks. I had to go contrast fabric because I didn't have quite enough fabric to cut the facings but It ended up a happy accident in the end.
Nov 28, 2012, 03.04 PMby sewneenee
Great looking pants! I know black is hard to photograph, but it looks like the fit is right on. Don't stress about redoing/unpicking etc, all that time spent is improving your skills! great work!
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Dec 3, 2012, 12.31 PMby Sew Hopeful
Thanks alot. And I agree I did learn alot.
Nov 28, 2012, 11.36 AMby Mary Athey
they look great on you .would you recommend this pattern? my friend wants me to make her faux leather trousers and i.m looking for a good pattern x
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Dec 3, 2012, 12.30 PMby Sew Hopeful
These pants are really wide legged. I took them in over 4 inches and they are still very wide on me, not sure how that would work in leather…it is a good pattern though, its nicely drafted.
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I have enjoyed fitness for years. Keeping my body moving keeps me sane!! I enjoy the burn after an intense workout and the lovely endorphins that go with! I read as much information on health and fitness as I can find, and enjoy sharing my discoveries. I would definately apprecieate any new helpful hints to make this new journey a success!
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DuBOIS - Elk County Catholic's Abby Meyer and Loreal Housler captured the District 9 tennis doubles championship on Tuesday by defeating their teammates, Laira Reuscher and Maria Gismondi, in the finals. The tournament was played at the DuBois Area High School courts.Housler and Meyer reached the finals by defeating St. Marys Area's Chelsea Agosti and Aubrey Wiesner 5-7, 6-1, 6-3 in the quarterfinals. In the semifinals they beat Brockway's Abigail Larson and Cassandra Foradori 6-1, 6-3.Reuscher and Gismondi reached the finals by defeating Riley Fannin and Taylor Scida of Johnsonburg 6-3, 6-1 in the quarterfinals. In the semifinals they defeated Marta Vega and Mary Rosman of St. Marys Area 6-7 (7-3), 6-1, 7-5.In the first set of the finals, Reuscher and Gismondi opened a 1-0 lead. Meyer and Housler knotted the set at 1-all. Meyer and Housler came back to even the set at 2-all. They would go on to win the next four points to win the set 6-2.The second set saw Meyer and Housler take a 1-0 lead. Reuscher and Gismondi tied the set at 1-all before taking a 3-1 lead. Meyer and Housler made the score 3-2. Gismondi and Reuscher opened a 4-2 lead. Meyer and Housler battled back to knot the set at 4-all. With the set tied at 5-all, Reuscher and Gismondi would win the final two points to win the set 7-5 to even the match at one set each.The third and deciding set saw Reuscher and Gismondi take the 1-0 lead. Meyer and Housler evened the set at 1-all. They would win the next five points to win the set 6-1 to capture the District 9 title."We have good doubles teams and we spend a lot of time practicing doubles," said ECCHS coach Pete Meier."These girls don't give up. They play every shot," said Meier."The two juniors (Gismondi and Reuscher) got a lot of experience today which will pay off in the long run. The two seniors (Meyer and Housler) are both four year letter winners. They will be missed for what they meant to the program. I can't think of a better way to end their careers," said the coach."I couldn't be prouder of these kids," added coach Meier.The District 9 champions will compete in the PIAA doubles tournament on Nov. 4 and 5 at the Hershey Racquet Club.The Punxsutawney duo of Anna Monyak and Shaina Reddinger defeated DuBois Area's Jenny Reese and Alexis DeNapoli 6-4, 6-7 (8-10), 6-3 to win the Class AAA title.The results of the 9-AA tournament are as follows:QuarterfinalsECC's Housler and Meyer over SMA's Agosti and Wiesner, 5-7, 6-1, 6-3.Brockway's Abigail Larson and Cassandra Foradori over Johnsonburg's Cheyenne Johnson and Andrea Allegretto, 6-2, 6-2.ECC's Reuscher and Gismondi over Johnsonburg's Riley Fannin and Taylor Scida 6-3, 6-1.SMA's Marta Vega and Mary Rosman over Brockway's Gabrielle Bart and Brittany Johnson, 6-0, 6-2.SemifinalsHousler and Meyer over Larson and Foradori 6-1, 6-3.Reuscher and Gismondi over Vega and Rosman, 6-7 (7-3) 6-1, 7-5.FinalsHousler and Meyer over Reuscher and Gismondi, 6-2, 5-7, 6-1.


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Former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen defends his California-flavored torture defense.
On April 21 I posted a Chatterbox column arguing that if the Central Intelligence Agency and former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen hoped to convince the world that the "enhanced interrogation techniques"described here (and since repudiated by President Obama) prevented terror attacks against the United States, they would have to come up with a better example than the Library Tower plot. The CIA and Thiessen had argued that torturing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, allowed the U.S. government to thwart the Library Tower attack, wherein al-Qaida planned to hijack a jetliner and fly it into the tallest building in Los Angeles (formally known these days as the U.S. Bank Tower). The trouble with this argument was that the chronology didn't work. Sheikh Mohammed was captured in March 2003, and on more than one occasion (for instance, here, here, and here), the Bush administration stated that the Library Tower plot was broken up in 2002. How could torturing Sheikh Mohammed in 2003 have prevented an attack that had already been foiled a year earlier?
After my column appeared, the liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America noted (here, here, and here) that the following people continued to repeat the Library Tower canard without acknowledging its logical inconsistency: Karl Rove, Dana Rohrabacher, Clifford May, and Fox News' Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Neil Cavuto, Steve Doocy, Catherine Herridge, and Brian Kilmeade. How annoying! Thiessen did, too, but on April 25, he finally answered with a posting on the National Review's blog, "The Corner," under the headline: "The West Coast Plot: An 'Inconvenient Truth.' "
Noah cites the fact that Fran Townsend, the Bush administration's homeland-security adviser, told reporters in a February 2006 press briefing that a key cell leader in the West Coast plot was arrested February of 2002. This, Noah points out, is before KSM came into CIA custody and underwent enhanced interrogation. He also notes Townsend said that after the cell leader's capture other cell members "believed" that the plot was not going forward.
I hate to break it to Noah, but this does not refute the fact that KSM's interrogation disrupted the West Coast plot.
It doesn't?
Let's review. The cell leader, Masran (not "Marsan," as Thiessen calls him) bin Arshad, was captured 13 months before Sheikh Mohammed. Not good enough, Thiessen says, because bin Arshad "did not lead us to the [other three] members of the cell tasked with carrying out the West Coast plot." Maybe so, but a second member of the cell, Zaini Zakaria ("Mussa"), surrendered to authorities in December 2002. That was three months before Sheikh Mohammed was captured. That left Mohammed Nazir Bin Lep ("Lillie") and Mohamad Farik Bin Amin ("Zubair"), neither of whom knew how to fly a plane.
(Two others with at least some pilot experience may have been involved in the Library Tower plot earlier, but they go unmentioned by Thiessen. These were Zacharias Moussaoui and Abderrauf Jdey. But Moussaoui was arrested before 9/11, and Jdey, who apparently dropped out before 9/11, remains at large—if you happen to see him please notify the Federal Bureau of Investigation—so neither is relevant to this discussion.)
Lillie and Zubair weren't captured until 2003, and apparently they remained involved in terror plots, most notably the August 2003 suicide bombing of a J.W. Marriott in Jakarta, Indonesia, which killed 12 people and injured 144. But they did not continue to pursue the Library Tower plot. We know this because, as Townsend told reporters in February 2006, they believed the Library Tower plan had ended with bin Arshad's capture. That jibes with an October 2003 Time magazine account of Lillie's confession, which states that "as far as Lillie knew, the operation was called off." Lillie was in a position to know pretty far, because he and his co-conspirator Zubair (an old school chum) were both working as top lieutenants to Riduan Isamuddin ("Hambali")—leader of a Southeast Asian al-Qaida affiliate called Jemaah Islamiyah and the man Sheikh Mohammed had directed to organize the Library Tower attack.
Thiessen does his level best to confuse this straightforward narrative by relating a complex tale involving Majid Khan (captured around the same time as Sheikh Mohammed) and Hambali's little brother Rusman Gunawan ("Gun Gun"). The gist is that al-Qaida gave $50,000 to Khan, who gave it to Zubair. Thiessen seems to imply that the money was for the Library Tower plot, but a March 2007 transcript of Zubair's tribunal hearing says it was actually "used to fund a safe house and to purchase materials for the J.W. Marriott attack in Jakarta." Thiessen asserts that Khan was "another key operative in the West Coast plot," but I can find no evidence of this in the public record, which by now is pretty extensive; it went unmentioned, for instance, at Khan's April 2007 tribunal hearing. (The rap against Khan, who resided in Baltimore but was arrested in Karachi, Pakistan, is that Sheikh Mohammed chose him for some sort of attack in the United States, possibly involving the detonation of gas stations or the poisoning of reservoirs—the details are very unclear—or, alternatively, to assassinate Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, in a suicide attack.) After 9/11, Khan did introduceSheikh Mohammed to an American named Iyman Faris, with whom Sheikh Mohammed discussed the Library Tower plot, but Faris ended up getting involved in an entirely different plot (which Faris quickly judged impractical) to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge by cutting its cables.
Thiessen goes on to assert that Gun Gun (arrested in Pakistan six months after Sheikh Mohammed's capture and later jailed in Indonesia for his role in the J.W. Marriott bombing) was "the leader of [a second] cell that was to carry out the West Coast plot." Again, I can find no evidence of this in the public record.
In both instances, I strongly suspect that Thiessen runs afoul of the distinction between the Library Tower plot and what Sheikh Mohammed referred to as the post-9/11 "Second Wave" of attacks. They are not the same thing. Yet the two terms are used interchangeably in the May 30 Justice Department memo on which Thiessen bases his argument and perhaps (it's hard to tell) in a CIA "effectiveness memo" cited in that same Justice Department memo. "You have informed us," writes Stephen G. Bradbury, principal deputy assistant attorney general, "that the interrogation of KSM—once enhanced techniques were employed—led to the discovery of a KSM plot, the 'Second Wave,' 'to use East Asian operatives to crash a hijacked airliner into' a building in Los Angeles." In fact, though, Second Wave, a term apparently used by Sheikh Mohammed himself, could refer to any one of a variety of possible post-9/11 attacks in the United States—none of them very far along in the planning—of which the Library Tower plot was only one. Sheikh Mohammed's use of the term was sufficiently imprecise that it drove his CIA interrogators a little batty. Second Wave, they complained, "has meant different things over the course of Sheikh Mohammed's debriefings." Asked finally to clarify, Sheikh Mohammed said Second Wave referred (here I quote the CIA's paraphrase) "to efforts begun in parallel with the 9/11 plot to identify and train pilots and muscle for additional 9/11-style strikes in the United States." In a final statement (read by his lawyer) at his March 2007 tribunal hearing, Sheikh Mohammed said:
I was responsible for planning, training, surveying, and financing the New (or Second) Wave attacks [italics mine] against the following skycrapers after 9/11:
a.) Library Tower, California
b.) Sears Tower, Chicago
c.) Plaza Bank, Washington State
d.) The Empire State Building, New York City
Sheikh Mohammed then went on to further cite plots to bomb suspension bridges in New York City, to destroy the New York Stock Exchange, and to assassinate former President Jimmy Carter. Given Sheikh Mohammed's expansive definition, Khan's seemingly inchoate desire to wreak havoc back home in the United States might easily be classified, too, as Second Wave, even though it bore no apparent connection to the Library Tower plot.
And Gun Gun? Thiessen links him to the Library Tower plot via a cell of plotters—not the four Library Tower plotters we've already discussed but a second cell consisting of 17 Indonesians and Malaysians who were arrested in September 2003. Members of Jemaah Islamiyah, the Southeast Asian affiliate led by Gun Gun's brother Hambali, these 17 souls constituted the "Guraba cell." According to Thiessen, they were going to carry out the Library Tower attack, too.
I'm at a disadvantage here because I'm pretty much in the dark about who the Guraba cell members were. Practically the only public reference I can find to them is in that May 30 Justice Department memo, and a quick check with several very reliable terrorism sources yielded nothing. But I have a strong hunch that Thiessen doesn't know who they are, either, outside of the May 30 memo—which mentions them once in reference to Sheikh Mohammed's catchall phrase "Second Wave" and once in reference to the "planned Second Wave attacks against Los Angeles." My best guess is that this second reference arises from a mistaken belief by the memo's Justice Department author, Bradbury, that Second Wave and Library Tower attack meant the same thing.Bradbury was a lawyer, not an intelligence official,and therefore unlikely to make much independent effort to find out where in the United States the Guruba cell planned its mischief. Surely someone inside the Bush administration knew, though. And if the Bush White House knew the Library Tower plot wasn't truly foiled until the Guraba cell bust in the fall of 2003, what possible reason would it have had to broadcast, repeatedly, years later, that the Library Tower plot was foiled in 2002?
[Update, April 28: A reader kindly informs me that among the "Second Wave" buildings Sheikh Mohammed "admitted" he'd plotted to destroy after the CIA waterboarded him 183 times, the Plaza Bank in Washington State seems especially farfetched. That's because the only bank bearing that name in the Evergreen State wasn't even founded until three years after Sheikh Mohammed was taken into custody. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer puzzled over this riddle at the time of Sheikh Mohammed's tribunal hearing.]


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EL PUIG, Spain—There's no spectacle in the world quite like this tiny town's San Pedro Nolasco fiesta. Every year on the last Sunday in January, townsfolk serve up rice, beans and turnips from steaming caldrons. Dancers whirl about in flowing dresses. Then comes the moment of truth: the throwing of the rats.
The custom's origins are obscure, but revelers have been slinging dead rats at each other on San Pedro's day for about as long as anyone can remember....


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|Oenothera acaulis leaves (the left one with a seed capsule attached to the leaf axil)
Oenothera acaulis sprawls across the ground; its weak stems can't seem to stand up straight. Its leaves are wrinkly and untidy, and look a bit like the leaves of many weedy plants. But when its huge white flowers open just as the sun is setting, it's a transformation.
|An Oenothera acaulis plant in flower.
The flowers stay open for a day, then they turn pale pink and wither.
|Oenothera acaulis flower.
It's not strictly a wild flower in New Zealand, but a few people cultivate it. I got some seeds from the Christchurch Botanical Gardens for research on seed dispersal. It has established in my garden and this year's plants have come up of their own accord from seeds in soil where I planted it last year. Some botanists would count that as wild, but it's not the definition we used in Flora of New Zealand Vol. 4, where crossing a boundary (such as into the neighbor's yard or onto the street reserve) was needed.
|Oenothera acaulis old flower withering and showing the 150 mm long floral tube.
Anyway, these huge flowers open so quickly at sunset you can watch them moving. It's a beautiful sight. The style is very long and sits inside a long floral tube. The pollen has to grow all that way to reach the ovary.
|Oenothera acaulis: this old flower has turned pink as it withers
My interest in O. acaulis began years ago when I grew some in Christchurch. I'd been working on the ice-plant family Aizoaceae and I noticed that the capsules of O. acaulis were stumpy and woody; they looked more like the capsules of Aizoaceae than the usual long and slender Oenothera capsules. So I wondered if they opened the same way.
|Oenothera acaulis unopened fruit.
Most Aizoaceae have an unusual method of capsule opening; it's called hygrochasy. Hygrochastic capsules open when they're wet. Most ice plants live in the deserts of South Africa and Namibia, and wetting their capsules causes special tissues, called expanding keels, to swell. The expanding keels are attached to a non-swelling resistance tissue and their swelling generates curvature in the capsule walls that forces the capsules open. Other ice-plants have more complex add-ons that help to splash the seeds out of the capsules using the energy of falling rain-drops.
So I picked a couple of Oenothera capsules and dropped them into a glass of water. Within 15–20 minutes they opened fully. That's a fairly slow rate of opening, but it's about what the ice-plants do. It's thought to be a mechanism that ensures they won't open until enough rain has fallen to enable the seeds to germinate and establish.
|Oenothera acaulis cross section of a capsule
Oenothera capsules don't have expanding keels, but they do have four spongy internal walls (bright and pale above), and running up each of their four sides is a rigid woody vein (brown above). The spongy walls swell when they take up water and the rigid vein constrains the swelling to force the capsule open. In the enlarged photo below, the rigid vein is on the right, characterised by rows of thick-walled cells; the cells of the capsule's internal walls are spongy and can expand when they're wetted.
|Oenothera acaulis cross section of a capsule, enlarged, and viewed under polarised light and filters to show cell arrangements and thickened walls.
This is the only time I've been scooped in my research, because while we were writing the paper about this, German botanist Hans-Dieter Poppendieck published a thorough account of fruit opening in O. acaulis (Poppendieck 1995). He also came to this through noting the similarity with Aizoaceae.
Like the ice-plants of Africa, O. acaulis is also a desert plant, but it's from South America. It's a remarkable example of parallel evolution, where the same function has evolved twice in unrelated plants, and the two plants have achieved the same result in ways that are structurally very different.
Also, this is a plant that can move, both when its flowers open rapidly at dusk and when its fruits open on a rainy day. It's the "ugly duckling" of the plant world.
Poppendieck, H.-H. 1995. Hygrochastic capsules in Oenothera (Onagraceae). Mitteilungen aus dem Institut fuer Allgemeine Botanik Hamburg 25: 99–115.


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SOURCE: NetCitadel, Inc.
January 29, 2013 08:17 ET
Security, Networking and Virtualization Experts Launch NetCitadel to Address Security and Compliance Challenges Across Dynamic Networks by Enabling Accurate, Context-Aware Security Infrastructure
Security, Networking and Virtualization Experts Launch NetCitadel to Address Security and Compliance Challenges Across Dynamic Networks by Enabling Accurate, Context-Aware Security Infrastructure
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwire - Jan 29, 2013) - NetCitadel, Inc., a pioneer in Security Orchestration and the first company to centralize network security intelligence across a variety of networking environments and vendors' equipment, today formally launched to give customers the ability to consistently and accurately adapt network security policies to the constant changes inherent in cloud and virtualization environments, resulting in a dramatic improvement in network protection.
NetCitadel's unique approach adds intelligence to existing security infrastructure by providing dynamic, context-driven updates to security devices in response to changes in the network. Instead of the current manual, error-prone change processes, NetCitadel integrates information from cloud and virtualization environments so customers can reduce their security risk exposure while improving operational efficiencies and response times. And, because NetCitadel's solutions integrate with existing security infrastructure, customers can expect a substantial improvement in security device ROI. With this launch, the company is laying the technology foundation for a suite of Software Defined Security solutions.
"The ability to consistently enforce security across cloud environments and virtual datacenters is the most critical remaining barrier to enterprise adoption of these technologies," said Krishna "Kittu" Kolluri, a general partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA) who serves on NetCitadel's Board of Directors. "NetCitadel's patent-pending innovations ensure that accurate security policies and controls are enforced across dynamic environments and heterogeneous systems. They have a stellar team in place and are tackling a big market opportunity. NEA is excited to partner with NetCitadel as they bring security orchestration to the enterprise."
With today's company launch, NetCitadel also announced its OneControl product that makes network security infrastructure agile by bridging the gaps in today's cloud, virtual and physical environments. See accompanying product launch announcement issued by NetCitadel today at: http://www.netcitadel.com/news-events/press-releases/product-launch-130129/
According to Gartner, "(With) cloud computing, cost was the initial driver. Now it's agility." 1 IT departments are being challenged with delivering agility, security and compliance in increasingly dynamic data centers and networking environments that include virtualization and cloud. Until today, IT security teams relied on manual change processes that are time-consuming, static, and susceptible to human errors; and fail to enforce consistent policies across dynamic and heterogeneous cloud, virtual and physical environments -- all resulting in costly delays, downtime and security exposure. With today's launch, enterprises can confidently respond to changing business needs, including accelerated expansion to virtual and cloud environments, with centralized security intelligence that dynamically adapts to network changes. This results in an accurate, context-aware security infrastructure that is dynamically synchronized with the latest network state, enabling organizations to securely take advantage of the agility that virtualization and the cloud have to offer.
"Current solutions are manual and were designed at a time when the pace of network changes was much slower," said Mike Horn, NetCitadel co-founder and CEO. "Today's network environments are highly dynamic, especially those that include cloud and virtualization, which renders existing security solutions ineffective. We founded NetCitadel to meet the unaddressed needs for applying automatic, consistent security policies and controls across heterogeneous infrastructure. We do this by enabling existing security devices to dynamically adapt to cloud and virtualization environment changes as they happen. While initially we are focused on integrating cloud and virtualization data, our security orchestration platform creates a foundation for us to add additional sources of real-time intelligence in the future."
NetCitadel was founded in 2010 in Mountain View, Calif., by experts in the security, virtualization and networking fields. The founding team includes CEO Mike Horn (formerly of Level 3 and Virtela); CTO Theron Tock (formerly of Neoteris/Juniper and Healtheon/WebMD); and Chief Engineer Vadim Kurland (formerly of Google and Healtheon/WebMD). Together, NetCitadel's visionary team combines a wealth of experience that ranges from developing patented security technologies in use around the globe, to building automation tools for the world's largest datacenters.
The company is venture backed, with NEA leading its Series A round of funding. In addition to Kolluri, NetCitadel's Board of Directors includes experienced industry and venture experts Rohini Chakravarthy, partner at NEA, and Sriram Ramachandran, formerly of Aruba Networks.
Advisors to the company include Tom Gillis, former VP/GM of Cisco's Security Technology Group; Allan Leinwand, VP and CTO, Platform Development at ServiceNow; Alain Mayer, former founding CTO of RedSeal Networks; Patrick Lin, senior VP of Product Management of Jive Software; and Devin Redmond, co-founder and CEO of Social IQ Networks.
Note 1 - Gartner, "Gartner Invest/Gartner Event Summary: 2012 Data Center Conference," by Andrew Neff, et al. Dec. 26, 2012.
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